![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That they do so while trying to build a relationship with someone who's seen them as they really are, to move past shame into intimacy, makes the story that much more touching. She currently teaches at the MFA Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. ![]() Bea and Beck, who readers see through Bea's sympathetic and knowing eyes, get worse and better not according to a predetermined outline but according to their individual trajectories. Corey Ann Haydu is the author of OCD Love Story, Rules for Stealing Stars, Eventown, and several other critically acclaimed young adult and children’s novels. Debut novelist Haydu doesn't sugarcoat the difficulties of OCD or reduce her characters to a symptom list. And then there's the fact exciting and mortifying in equal parts that the group includes Beck, an adorable compulsive hand-washer Bea met while he was having a panic attack. When Bea's therapist decides she would benefit from group therapy, Bea is sure that if she starts talking about her "little anxieties about driving and missing my ex-boyfriend, these people will feel approximately a thousand times worse about themselves." But Bea isn't just an over-cautious driver and a blurter she's afraid to be around sharp objects in case she suddenly harms someone and is basically stalking the couple that has therapy before her. Corey Ann Haydu is the author of OCD Love Story, Rules for Stealing Stars, Eventown, and several other critically acclaimed young adult and children’s novels.She currently teaches at the MFA Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. ![]()
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